April 18: Rebecca Makkai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
♦April 18, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Rebecca Makkai, Fiction
Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University and the Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.